Effective January 1, 2009, California healthcare providers were required to report every breach of patient information to the state. They have sent a flood of mishaps and a steady stream of malicious acts.

While some people go to great lengths to gain unauthorized access to medical r....

In California, teasing apart state and federal breach notification laws highlights the challenges organizations everywhere face in determining their responsibilities under ARRA’s new privacy regulations.

Within healthcare organizations, the temptation for some staff can be great: wh....

Several well-publicized medical record breaches in California, including the unauthorized access of the governor’s wife’s record, led to sweeping changes in the oversight, reporting, and enforcement of penalties for privacy breaches in the state. Two new laws signed by Governor Sch....

Welcome to the AHIMA State Privacy Law Resource tool. This tool provides AHIMA members with web links to sites with specific information regarding the final HIPAA privacy rules and their interaction with state laws and regulations. On many of these sites, you will find access to HIPAA preemptio....

Q: I recently heard a group of HIM professionals discussing record completion policies. One professional was discussing her organizations newly adopted policy of defining a delinquent medical record as a record that was missing any one of five items: discharge summary, final diagnoses wi....